> 
>   I'm sure the difference between a descendent and a child is mentioned
> somewhere in the coda docs, but it wasn't in the hoard man page.

Children are *immediate* children of a directory, decendents are
children plus children of children (found recusively) in a directory.
I am not sure if there is a discussion in the manual, but this is 
discussed in Jay Kistler's PhD thesis (pg. 89).

-- Clement